Beethoven: String Quartets, Opp. 132, 130 & 133
New album of Beethoven’s late String Quartets by the prestigious Tetzlaff Quartett offers a fitting tribute to Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year. These monumental works which are given fresh interpretations by the quartet are among the greatest achievements in the history of Western art music written by a composer who had already largely lost contact ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Fandango! Music for Solo Guitar and String Quartet
Swedish-born guitar virtuoso Johan Löfving returns to Resonus Classics to record his debut solo album with a programme of works for both solo guitar and guitar with string quartet. Joined by the Consone Quartet, and castanet player Nanako Aramaki, for Boccherinl’s fourth guitar quintet, ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Surviving jazz is quite simple: learn the tradition, poke it in the eye, and then run as fast as you can. Despite his young age, bandleader Arne Toivo Fjose Sandberg has already mastered the art of looking into the future while keeping an eye on the past, his music sounding both fresh and familiar ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (1742 Version)
Handel's 'Messiah' is one of the most sung oratorios in the world and its great choruses and arias can be heard on countless classical collections. From its premiere to the present day, this great sacred work enjoys almost unbroken popularity and has always fascinated audiences and musicians ...
Composer: George Frideric Händel (1685-1757)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Drum legend Steve Gadd along with the 2-time Danish Grammy-winning saxophonist Michael Blicher and hammond-wizard Dan Hemmer release their third studio album – Get That Motor Runnin’. United by a shared love of performing bluesy, soulful music in the most intimate and acoustic of settings, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Jazz Blues
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as an artist who "creates unique aural landscapes," Icelandic pianist V¡kingur Olafsson continues his acclaimed recording partnership with Deutsche Grammophon with the release of Debussy & Rameau. Following two albums featured in NPR Music's Top 10 ...
Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Skinny Hightower is an American jazz pianist, drummer, bass player, and producer. He is known to have worked particularly within the smooth jazz community as a producer and session musician for nearly a decade but didn't begin working as a solo artist until 2015. He claims to listen to nearly ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Smooth Jazz
The Book of Imaginary Beings: The Music of Leo Brouwer for Two Guitars
Hailed by The New York Times as Fresh, Hot and Headed for Fame, The Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo explores the farthest reaches of the ensemble literature, performing and recording the premieres of many new works. As the ensemble-in-residence at New York's Mannes College of Music, the duos concert tours ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
2020 is the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, and this album presents three works that reshape the composer’s awe-inspiring music for the 21st century. The Sonata for Orchestra considers how the Violin Sonata No. 7 would sound had it been written for orchestra, ...
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Freya is the seventh album from Dutch saxophonist Tineke Postma. Her first since 2014, Freya is a come-back album as a leader. Following an acclaimed international career, including work with legends Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, Tineke’s Freya represents a fresh start with a new ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Over the years, many of the countless attempts to portray Beethoven have veered towards the one-dimensional: the hero, the titan, the free spirit, the rebel and non-conformist, the musical libertarian… While there may be some truth in one or more of these labels, the reality is infinitely more complex. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Like all the great artists, Ryan Perry isn’t afraid to rip it up and start again. Since 2007, the Mississippi bandleader has blazed a reputation in the award-winning Homemade Jamz Blues Band. But when it came to his solo debut, Perry took a leap of faith and trusted his talent to land him ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Electric Blues
King Solomon Hicks grew up in Harlem "around a lot of great musicians." That certainly shows on HARLEM, an 11-song salute to those roots -- and how the 24-year-old guitarist and singer has turned them into his own fierce and distinctive style over the years. ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Bluesy Rock
The Marais Project’s latest offering, The Garden Party, has a festive anniversary flavour and includes several world premieres, not the least of which is the Eriksson-penned title track. Early music ensemble, The Marais Project, has never followed a predictable path. ...
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
When 19-year-old Norwegian Thomas Dybdahl released his two first EPs 'Bird' & 'John Wayne' in 2000-2001 he appeared as nothing but a small blip on the musical radar in Norway. Interest was piqued somewhat by the single "Love's Lost", but it wasn't until his debut album '...that great October sound' in 2002 ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Contemporary
Flanagans Shenanigans (Remastered)
Tommy Flanagan is an excellent example of the artists honoured by the the JAZZPAR project. Tommy Flanagan has played and recorded with Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald – and that’s just for starters. In each of many playing situations he’s found himself in, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Hard Bop
Following acclaimed recordings of concertos by Dvořák and Shostakovich, by Tan Dun and Josef Suk, the Norwegian violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing returns to her roots in this Grieg recital, joined by Simon Trpčeski at the piano. Each of Edvard Grieg's violin sonatas marks a decisive phase in the composer's artistic development. ...
Composer: Edvard Grieg (1843–1907)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Chamber Music
Snarls spent 2019 quietly blooming. Two songs landed this Columbus, OH four-piece on Stereogum’s Top 100 Songs and Best New Bands honor rolls. With that running start in mind, 2020 is when they'll surely blossom into a band to watch. Debut LP Burst finds the next charming ...
Genre: Alternative
Subgenre: Indie Rock
“The mystery of the ballad comes from the way it is told” - Goethe. This fascinating repertory requires the performer to play each of the characters as he or she would in an opera. Who better than Stéphane Degout to take up the challenge of plunging into the heart of German ...
Composer: Franz Schubert (1810–1856), Carl Loewe (1796-1869), Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Franz Liszt (1811–1886), Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
